EJECT A CD INSERTED BACKWARDS ON IMAC

Good evening,

Try ejecting your disk by opening a Terminal window, Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, and typing in it sudo drutil eject, validate, then type your administrator password and validate again...

If that doesn't work, we will have to take more drastic measures, take a rigid support (a wooden ice stick is the best) insert it into the slot of your iMac so that the disk cannot turn, and start your iMac...
You should feel a resistance (the disk wants to turn) and at some point there will be nothing, that will be the moment to remove the stick, as the CD will be ejected (a kind of automatic protection of the drive to prevent damage).

Good luck!

So, try the open firmware:

To eject a disk via Open Firmware:

Restart the computer.
When you hear the startup chime, press and hold the Command + Option + O + F keys. (There is an Apple logo on the Command key.)
Release the keys when you see a white screen that says "Welcome to Open Firmware".
At the prompt, type:
eject cd

Press the Return key, then wait a few seconds. The disk drive should eject the disk, and "OK" will appear on the screen when the action is complete.
Type:
mac-boot

Press the Return key.
Your computer will boot normally and you will return to your Mac OS X desktop.
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All CD-ROM drives for Windows PCs have a small hole on the front face; by inserting a straightened paperclip and pushing gently as soon as you feel resistance, you can trigger a mechanism that releases the tray.

Hello,

Saying anything when you don't know is a sign of very developed intelligence!!

@ YODA

Restart your iMac with the mouse button pressed down (left button on a two-button mouse), the ejection should happen; if not, come back to us, there are other methods.

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I need another tip because I clicked the left mouse button and still nothing
help me

Answering anything when you're not sure is proof of a highly developed intelligence!;
I know it doesn't apply to the iMac, that's why I specified Windows PC

Is having an iMac a sign of intelligence? The question and the answers aren't convincing

A little search on CCM would have answered this question:
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Sanspseudo, on October 6, 2007 at 2:50:43 PM
+4Hello,
test this:

1. Restart the computer. If necessary, use the reset/interruption button.
2. As soon as the computer makes a sound on startup, press and hold the mouse button. Do not release it until the startup is complete.
This technique could force the disk to eject

Excerpt from this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106882-en
Best regards and good luck

still no CD ejection

Where is the option key?

It's an Intel Mac, where is the reset button?

the option (alt) key is the one next to the command (apple) key
The reset button? the power button because the reset button is located on the motherboard and is not accessible without opening the Mac.
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On the keyboard I have, there is no key with an apple.

It's the key marked cmd, on either side of the space bar.

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I must be super dumb because my CD still won't come out.

Anyway, my technique, although rough, has already worked for me, but I've never had an iMac so I don't know if it will be the same. Anyway, worth trying as a last resort?
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Good evening,

There is a method via the Terminal that involves typing the following command:
drutil tray eject
and validating this command by pressing the "Return" key.

Ritchi

To forcibly eject a CD from the Mac, you need to take a card (made of a material that's between a credit card and cardboard, like a library card). Turn off the Mac. Insert the card into the CD drive. Start the Mac. Press down a bit on the card. Listen to the drive; when it makes noise, pull out the card. The CD will come out.

There you go!
Amélie

nothing works, neither a card nor a box

And the command I gave you, namely drutil tray eject?